BRITISH LABOUR'S FOLLY.
BLUNDER OF COAL STRIKE. OUTSPOKEN UNION LEADER. LONDON. Sept. 29. Mr. Havelock Wilson, in his presidential address at the annua! conference of the National Union of Sailors and Firemen to-day, said that the leaders of the Miners' Federation had admitted to him that the miners' strike was one of the most colossal blunders they had ever made. It could have been prevented -without an hour's stoppage.
Unemployment could onJy be solved by the revival of commerce, and mutual confidence and co-operation between the employer and his workmen. Doles merely led to further unemployment. " There were extremists who did not want things to improve. They wanted more unemployment, starvation, and tuxmoil, leading to "glorious revolutipn." That did not help the working people. The ideas of those fools and madmen in no way reflected the feeling of the working classes of England. When the war had finished the trades union movement should have endeavoured to make a good compromise with the employers for industrial peace.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17909, 11 October 1921, Page 7
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